Seattle woman will eat food only from Starbucks for a year

A Seattle woman says she'll only consume food from Starbucks for all of 2013, though friends and family tell her it's going to "cost a lot of money" and she's "going to gain weight," (Photo courtesy Beautiful Existence)

“That’s going to cost a lot of money.”

“You’re going to gain weight.”

Those are the reactions a Seattle woman gets when she tells friends about her plan for the year.

Beautiful Existence, her legal name, is only going to eat food and drink beverages from Starbucks for all of 2013.

“I’ve been going in and getting their nutrition by the cup charts for all their serving sizes,” she says. “I’m already getting a feel for what to eat – the plain nut pack as a snack because it only has 190 calories, compared to the piece of pumpkin bread.”

Lucky for her, Starbucks bought a tea business and a juice company last year, so Beautiful will also purchase food from Evolution Fresh and Tazo Tea.

“I’m still trying to figure out how I can do sushi,” she says. “I have two friends who are chefs and I want to see if I can get them to help me tear down some of the products at Evolution fresh and do something else.”

Are you still trying to figure out why she’s doing this?

Beautiful, who does not work for Starbucks and isn’t getting paid by the company, designs year-long challenges for herself.